Posham Pa
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| Posham Pa | |
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| Directed by | Suman Mukhopadhyay |
| Written by | Nimisha Misra |
| Produced by | Jahanara Bhargava & Seema Mohapatra |
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| Music by | Prabuddha Banerjee |
Production companies | Ten Years Younger Productions Amber Entertainment |
| Distributed by | ZEE5 |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Posham Pa is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. The film stars Mahie Gill, Sayani Gupta, Ragini Khanna in the main lead roles.[1][2] The title generally refers to a children's rhyme but the film depicts the mass murder of children by serial killers.[3] The plot of the film is based on the true story of serial killers Anjana, and her two daughters Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde, who kidnapped more than 40 children and murdered around 12 children on 19 November 1996.[3] Seema and Renuka received death penalty in 2014 for committing the murders while their mother Anjana died in 1997 while serving her prison sentence.[4] The film was released via the ZEE5 platform on 23 August 2019 and received generally positive reviews from the audience and critics.[5][6]
The story is that of a psychologically disturbed mother Prajakta (Mahie Gill) who inspired and coerced her two daughters, Regha (Sayani Gupta) and Shikha (Ragini Khanna), into a life of crime. They murdered 5 children and the sisters later reveal everything to two documentary filmmakers - Gundeep (Imaad Shah) and Nikhat (Shivani Raghuvanshi).
Cast
- Mahie Gill as Prajakta Deshpande
- Sayani Gupta as Regha Sathe
- Ragini Khanna as Shikha Deshpande
- Shivani Raghuvanshi as Nikhat Ismail
- Randheer Rai as Dharmesh Deshpande
- Imaad Shah as Gundeep Singh